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ACS OMEGA
Volume 5, Issue 38, Pages 24754-24761Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c03353
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- Army Research Office under MURI project [W911NF-18-1-0240]
- National Science Foundation through the MRSEC program [DMR-1420013]
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Aluminum oxide, both in amorphous and crystalline forms, is a widely used inorganic ceramic material because of its chemical and structural properties. In this work, we synthesized amorphous aluminum oxide nanoparticles using a capacitively coupled nonthermal plasma utilizing trimethylaluminum and oxygen as precursors and studied their crystallization and phase transformation behavior through postsynthetic annealing. The use of two reactor geometries resulted in amorphous aluminum oxide nanoparticles with similar compositions but different sizes. Size tuning of these nanoparticles was achieved by varying the reactor pressure to produce amorphous aluminum oxide nanoparticles ranging from 6 to 22 nm. During postsynthetic annealing, powder samples of amorphous nanoparticles began to crystallize at 800 degrees C, forming crystalline theta and gamma phase alumina. Their phase transformation behavior was found to be size-dependent in that powders of small 6 nm amorphous particles transformed to form phase-pure alpha-Al2O3 at 1100 degrees C, while powders of large 11 nm particles remained in the theta and gamma phases. This phenomenon is attributed to the fast rate of densification and neck formation in small amorphous aluminum oxide particles.
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